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Best 1 Sycamore Row

Sycamore Row is a 2013 legal thriller by John Grisham and a sequel to A Time to Kill. Set in the fictional town of Clanton, Mississippi, it again follows lawyer Jake Brigance, who is appointed to defend a handwritten will that leaves most of a wealthy man's estate to his Black housekeeper. The resul...

2 A Time for Mercy

A Time for Mercy is a 2020 legal thriller by John Grisham and the third novel centered on attorney Jake Brigance, following A Time to Kill and Sycamore Row. Set in the fictional town of Clanton, Mississippi, it follows Brigance as he is appointed to defend sixteen-year-old Drew Gamble, who is accuse...

3 The Guardians

The Guardians is a 2019 legal thriller by John Grisham about wrongful convictions and the American death-penalty system. Its protagonist, Cullen Post, is a lawyer and Episcopal minister working for Guardian Ministries, a small nonprofit that represents prisoners believed to be innocent. The central...

4 The Last Juror

John Grisham's 2004 novel set in 1970s Mississippi, following a young newspaper publisher who covers a brutal murder trial and its violent aftermath.

5 The Testament

John Grisham's 1999 thriller in which a lawyer searches the Brazilian wilderness to locate the sole heir to an eccentric billionaire's eleven-billion-dollar estate.

6 The Partner

John Grisham's 1997 legal thriller about a Mississippi lawyer who fakes his own death, steals millions, and spends years hiding under a new identity abroad.

7 Camino Island

John Grisham's 2017 novel about the theft of rare F. Scott Fitzgerald manuscripts and the shadowy rare-book black market on a Florida barrier island.

8 The Street Lawyer

John Grisham's 1998 legal thriller in which a corporate attorney's chance encounter with a homeless man leads him to abandon his firm for public interest law.

9 The Racketeer

John Grisham's 2012 thriller in which a disbarred lawyer serving time in federal prison offers to identify a murdered judge's killer in exchange for his freedom.

10 The Judge's List

John Grisham's 2021 legal thriller and second Lacy Stoltz novel, in which a Florida judicial investigator uncovers evidence that a federal judge is a serial killer.

11 The Whistler

John Grisham's 2016 thriller about a Florida judicial conduct investigator who uncovers a corrupt judge's long-hidden ties to organized crime.

12 The Litigators

John Grisham's 2011 novel about a burned-out Wall Street lawyer who joins a small Chicago personal injury firm and stumbles into a major pharmaceutical lawsuit.

13 The Boys from Biloxi

John Grisham's 2022 novel set on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, tracing two families across decades whose sons become a prosecutor and a criminal kingpin.

14 The Broker
The Broker

John Grisham's 2005 thriller about a pardoned former presidential advisor secretly relocated to Italy by the CIA and given a fabricated identity.

15 The Rooster Bar

John Grisham's 2017 novel about three law students who discover their for-profit law school is a fraudulent operation and conspire to expose it.

16 Gray Mountain

John Grisham's 2014 novel in which a laid-off New York lawyer does pro bono work in Appalachian coal country and uncovers deep corporate corruption.

17 The Summons

John Grisham's 2002 thriller in which a law professor discovers hidden cash in his dying father's home and must determine its dangerous origin.

18 Rogue Lawyer

John Grisham's 2015 novel featuring Sebastian Rudd, a maverick criminal defense attorney who operates from a customized van outside the legal establishment.

19 The King of Torts

John Grisham's 2003 legal thriller about a public defender who is seduced into the lucrative and corrupt world of mass-tort class-action lawsuits.

20 Camino Winds

John Grisham's 2020 sequel to Camino Island, set on a Florida barrier island during a hurricane that coincides with a murder of a bestselling author.

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